Good Entertainment, but could have been better

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2005)

The Island is one of those movies you see that has a good premise, a good cast but just doesn't delve to the depths such a story deserves.
For the first half hour of the movie, it builds up the story of how survivors from a "contamination" of Earth, are kept in a large facility, with everyone's dream being selected in the lottery to go to a Utopian "The Island", the last uncontaminated place on Earth.
We follow Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGreggor) as he discovers that all is not as it seems with "The Island", after his close friend Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) is chosen to go The Island.
This premise told for could have been a great movie, but instead of going for a deep movie about the ethics of the situation, director Michael Bay just blew some stuff up.
Good acting by Ewan McGreggor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou and Sean Bean, and enough action to make it entertaining, but they shied away from making a thought provoking movie.
6/10